Rethinking Obama's political performance in Tucson

Washington Examiner ^ | 1/16/11 | Byron York

[aruanan]

by urging everyone to avoid jumping to conclusions, as he did the day after the November 2009 massacre at Ft. Hood, Texas.

However, it is perfectly acceptable for HIM to jump to conclusions by stating the police acted "stupidly" when he had no facts whatsoever about the incident in Cambridge.

It's whatever advances his agenda: the Ft. Hood killer was a Muslim in constant contact with a known international terrorist leader so he had to lay low on this or piss off his Muslim supporters. The Arizona killer was a psychopath, but Obama's supporters were busily using this as a way to libel Obama's enemies so he had to let them go as far as they could to do some damage until he could milk the situation in another way to promote himself.

I hope that when he finally goes absolutely ape sh-t nuts it's on camera so I can watch it again and again and again. Maybe even make video cards with about 10 seconds of the breakdown.

[driftless2]

What Obama should have done is apologize for the slanderous words spewed forth by his supporters. He didn’t do that. And he should have stated harsh rhetoric is a first cousin to politics...itself a very rough game. In short, Obama’s speech was an appeal for conservatives to keep quiet. You didn’t cause the shootings, but shut up anyway.

[mas cerveza por favor]

It's whatever advances his agenda: the Ft. Hood killer was a Muslim in constant contact with a known international terrorist leader so he had to lay low on this or piss off his Muslim ruling class supporters.

It is the ruling class support for ruinous immigration that counts. The ruling class must stamp out the White Christian majority in order to thoroughly divide and enslave the people.

[pineybill]

I too am very disappointed by Obama. After ending the speech noting that as soon as he left the room the Congresswoman opened her eyes for the first time, I was wondering why he just didn’t make a side trip afterword, visit the morgue, and raise the dead.

[webstersII]

Great post.

Especially the part about throwing the panties. I almost spewed coffee on my keyboard.

[scooby321]

Rich Lowry is an idiot. When he said Michael Vick should be killed for killing and running a dog fighting operation. KILLLED?

its not what Michael Vick did was right but he paid for the crime and Obama was trying to use Michael Vick but Killed?

[Liz]

Heh---one of your best.

"For my next number, I'll do the Shoop Shoop song (it's in his kiss)."

[Liz]

NOTE: Nearly 31 Million Watch Obama's Tucson Speech......33 MILLION WATCH FOOTBALL GAME

"Man, things are looking up for me. Shot down in Nov,
back up in Jan, thanks to one whacked out little twerp."

[Blind Eye Jones]

“supporters had tied the killings to the issue of political rhetoric”

This is key for the smear to continue. The left will castigate Palin and others on the assumption that there is a connection. There is no connection. The left will make Palin appear to be insensitive and heartless for not apologizing when there is nothing to apologize for.

[tsomer]

An old political ploy: the leader takes the high road while large numbers of minions take the low road on his behalf.

Indeed.

The thought occurred to me that this was a set-up from the start:

Jan 8, 10:am:shooting
4:00:'bam delivers his statement ( http://www.middletownpress.com/articles/2011/01/08/news/doc4d291adaddda9334198139.txt)
Meanwhile, the press reports depict gunman as a talk radio aficionado.

Starting that evening Jan.8 through 12, mount campaign of slander, repeating established "rabid right" trope, baiting conservatives while reinforcing liberal prejudices.

Conservatives, as expected, react with outrage

Prestitutes fire their second barrage of "illiterate, gun-toting rabid-right" tropes.

Meanwhile, 'bam calls in speech writers and oratory coaches for his four-day preparation.

Jan. 12: 'bam goes to Arizona for his command performance, stressing moderation and civility while dispensing the usual idealistic platitudes. He's learned to modulate his voice a little more, thanks to his coaching. This makes him sound passionate.

Prestitutes praise speech for unifying country and rising above rhetoric; it's equal to the Gettysburg address. They proclaim, once again, 'bam's the saviour.

I suspect the strategy was lain out the minute they glimpsed the opportunity in this tragedy.
Call me cynical.

[DocH]

So even as he conceded that rhetoric did not cause the violence, Obama argued that it should be muted anyway.

EXACTLY.

These are the games these radical leftists play.

It's just a shame, and a bit embarassing, when people we Conservatives normally admire and respect, and who usually show a good degree of intelligence, are taken in by the LIES and DECEIPT from the left, and once again...

from Obama's teleprompter.

WAKE UP Glenn. You are asleep at the wheel on this one.

[DocH]

Imagine a calculating Democratic political strategist?

Like Wasserman Shultz (D - FL) who, as the disgusting, shameless leftist hack she is, has taken EVERY opportunity to squeeze in left-wing political talking points, even when asked UNRELATED softball questions regarding the shooting of her "friend" (Gifford voted against her far-left girl, Pelosi) by her comrades in the left-wing media.

She did it on Amanpour's show this morning, inappropriately interjecting the "fact" that there were mental health provisions in the Obamacare that, in essence, EVIL Republicans will soon try and repeal.

She also did it recently when interviewed by CBS' Couric. At one point (watch at http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7240428n&tag=cbsnewsSectionContent.0;fdPromo), DWS did what rabid, far-left dems ALWAYS do, she made up (or, at least, embellished - you could see in her eyes she was LYING) a story about her daughter being concerned that someone may shoot her because evil Republicans in Florida are introducing an Arizona-style illegal immigration bill. This little “story” was related by the normally cold-as-ice, vicious, rabid left-wing B*TCH, with OBVIOUS CROCODILE TEARS.

The latest point these left-wing dems are trying to get across with their talking points, lying, and FAKE concern and tears, is that Republicans and Conservatives just need to sit down and shut up and stop being so mean-spirited and violent in their words and actions. It’s ALL TOTAL B.S. designed to silence the opposition, and thwart the will of the American people as evidenced by the last election.

These type of democRATS HAVE NO SHAME, and NO ONE should be fooled by their cynical strategy.

[Qbert]

That's a fascinating analysis. Until now, I never gave much thought to Obama's tactic of using the 9 year old girl's death to subtly further his political aims of silencing his opponents. It looks like he's back to his old stand-by, the political "Human Kiddie Shield". Truly revolting in this particular case.

[Jvette]

I submit that the speech, especially the part about toning down the rhetoric was not a call to tone it down but was in fact an implicit support of what the press had been saying since hours after the deranged one attacked.

As Laura Ingraham calls it, the speech was a ‘but monkey’.

The exploitation by him of this event is as debased as any I’ve seen.

[hinckley buzzard]

Exactly right. He sat by silently with his thumb up his a&& for five full days of obscene Leftwing hate and didn't say a word. By Wednesday he decided he had gotten as much mileage from the feeding frenzy as he was going to get, so he popped up in Tucson as the Great Voice of Civility.

Totally transparent, and the failure of discernment by these "republican" hacks (except Brooks who is a liberal democrat) reveals their incompetence to understand what we are up against.

[Blue Collar Christian]

[I suspect the strategy was lain out the minute they glimpsed the opportunity in this tragedy. Call me cynical.]

OK, you’re cynical. And I think you’re right.

[happygrl]

And they will further mute the political rhetoric by mingling at 0bama’s State of the Union Address.

0bama sooooo needs to be seen as Presidential, as compared to Palin, whose post-Tucson speech was far superior to anything 0bama has said these last two years.

[FR_addict]

“By the time he spoke in Tucson, Obama had let four days pass while some of the angriest voices in the media — his supporters — either blamed Republicans directly for the killings or blamed the GOP for creating the atmosphere in which the violence took place. During those four days, the president could have cooled the conversation by urging everyone to avoid jumping to conclusions, as he did the day after the November 2009 massacre at Ft. Hood, Texas. But he didn't. Only after Loughner’s insanity had been indisputably established did Obama concede that politics was not to blame for the shooting.”

The author made an excellent point here, which all the other Republicans are missing. Republicans act like Obama gave a great speech, when all he did was say the obvious after letting the liberals get away with demonizing conservatives for four days. Obama turned a memorial service into a pep rally with t-shirts no less. That didn't show respect for the victims.